If you're contemplating a trip to South America, Boston-based Overseas Adventure Travel offers free airfare worth $900 per person on selected trips this summer.
The deal is good for June journeys that highlight Machu Picchu in Peru and the Galápagos...

During Super Bowl halftime Feb. 1, you can expect to see high-priced commercials for beer, fast food, cars, soft drinks and a small South American banana exporter.
Ecuador is expected to become the first foreign country to buy a 30-second ad during...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years inside Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, said Monday he planned to leave the building "soon," but his spokesman said that could only happen if Britain let him.
Britain has repeatedly said it won't back down, that its laws must be followed, and that Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he denies. Assange would be arrested if he exited the building because he has...

As he walks out the door, Bud Selig completed a final victory. The man who sat at the wheel of baseball for more than two decades managed to get his chosen successor the requisite votes, despite a faction of owners that had opposed the choice. In the end, Rob Manfred was selected as baseball's next commissioner and the elaborate plan to block Selig's right-hand man failed. MLB executive Tim Brosnan pulled out of the running before owners voted Thursday and Red Sox executive Tom Werner did not muster...

SIMSBURY — Simsbury's Paul Martel has spent the last seven years building a medical clinic in Ecuador with help from local physicians and community members.
The 62-year-old, who is the President of YHB Investment Advisors in West Hartford, is also the President and Founder of FIBUSPAM and Clinica Dulce Refugio, a foundation and medical clinic that has treated over 20,000 children in Riobamba, Ecuador.
Martel said his humanitarian work started 20 years ago. After more than a dozen surgical...